Re: In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread - Part 1

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Originally Posted by gwynplaine

5 years later and I still haven't seen a performance on the level of Heath's Joker. Comic book films or otherwise. We really got something special there.

Don't know if I would go that far, but it is an awesome performance no doubt. Was just watching the interrogation scene on YouTube. He really channeled Cagney during that scene, both in terms of voice and gangster confidence. I get chills when he starts laughing as Batman punches him. There's something about the way he laughs and the timing of it that works very well every time I see it.

Re: In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread - Part 1

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Originally Posted by BatLobsterRises

It's pretty crazy how I never tire of that performance. It also never stops being sad to me that Ledger never got to see The Dark Knight. Just maddeningly sad.

I agree.
I might be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Heath was showed the prologue in Imax by the producers, loved it and asked to see it a second time in a row. I hope it's true, it's a small consolation, but it's still something.

Re: In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread - Part 1

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Originally Posted by The Joker

Best performance in the trilogy, IMO.

Wholeheartedly agree

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Originally Posted by gwynplaine

I might be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Heath was showed the prologue in Imax by the producers, loved it and asked to see it a second time in a row. I hope it's true, it's a small consolation, but it's still something.

Yeah, i read that somewhere too. Cant remember where though.

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Re: In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread - Part 1

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Originally Posted by gwynplaine

I agree.
I might be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Heath was showed the prologue in Imax by the producers, loved it and asked to see it a second time in a row. I hope it's true, it's a small consolation, but it's still something.

I heard about that, too. I think it's the only footage from the movie that he saw. Finished footage I mean.

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Re: In Heath We Trust: A Ledgerbration: The TDK Joker Appreciation Thread - Part 1

I definitely think this is the greatest performance of the 21st Century (and one of the greatest of all time), with others slightly below him:

1. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
2. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
3. Javier Bardem - No County for Old Men
4. Christian Bale - American Psycho

I can't think of any other performances that sort of define the 2000's for me. Hell, I'd say Heath in Brokeback Mountain, and Bale in The Machinist, but that wouldn't be fair.

Regarding Heath's Joker, I know people in theater and acting school who just automatically cite this as the greatest performance of recent memory. Ask most of them, they say, "Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. That thing he does with his lips like he's a fiend, the way he talks... There's nothing else like it." -- Their words, not mine!